I purchased a CY8CKIT-142 to experiment a bit with the bluetooth LP radio. I am very familiar with cypress's tool chain, since I've been using cypress PSoCs for several different projects over the past 4 years, and I found it very simple to use.

Right out of the box, I snapped off 5 male header pins, stuck it in my miniprog3, and then stuck the 5 pins (triple checking my orientation) into the kit-142. Unfortunately, through PSoC Creator, the miniprog3 didnt see the PSoC4 on the kit-142. I tried many different settings, including powering it at 3.3V and 5V. As well as power cycle and reset acquire modes, different clock frequencies, and even toggling between 5-pin and 10-pin connectors. NOTHING. I have replaced the 5pin header thinking the contacts may be too short with standard 22AWG wire, still with same result.

Unfortunately the only thing I have to work with at home is my DMM, and my CY8CKIT-050. On Monday I can use my scope at work to further probe around, but I was excited to get some prototyping done this weekend.

I have verified that at least the 10-pin SWD setting on the miniprog3 works by just connecting it to my kit-050. It detects the PSoC5 just fine.

I have upgraded to PSoC Creator 4.0. I still don't see it in PSoC Creator's debug targets menu. However, I see that in PSoC programmer, I can read from the device, and that the CY8C4247 device is being seen. Is this PSoC device supported by the PSoC creator debug chain? Or is there no debug capability, just flashing the hex file through PSoC Programmer?

In order for you to run the PSoC creator in debugger mode, you will need to make sure the SWD pins are set to Debug under the System settings in the project, otherwise the code will set them to GPIO, and the device won't be able to use the SWD link to debug the project.

In order to recreate the issue ,I tried programming CY8CKIT-142 with MiniProg3 alone,for that you have to go to the Tools>Options>Program/Debug>Port Configuration>MiniProg3 in Creatorand do the settings as shown in the image attached

I was able to program CY8CKIT-142 (via MiniProg3) by these settings and connecting correct 5pins(VDDD,GND,XRES,P0.7 & P0.6 on CY8CKIT-142)